Though a posthumously released collection, The Later Years nonetheless sports a sleeve more than worthy of its place alongside the best Pink Floyd album covers. Illustration: Nick Mason (original artwork) | Photography: Tony May (CD reissue) | Design: Hipgnosis (Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon), Jon Crossland (CD reissue) For the 1996 CD reissue, however, Hipgnosis’ Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon came up with the idea of a three-dimensional depiction of Mason’s original idea, and the real-life relic was duly constructed, mostly out of wood, by Jon Crossland and photographed by Tony May. That captured the compilation’s spirit: while it was a seemingly random assortment of tracks, it included the band’s first two Syd Barrett-fronted hits, Arnold Layne and See Emily Play, along with then hard-to-source cuts such as Julia Dream, Paint Box and Careful With That Axe, Eugene, and the previously unreleased Biding My Time – all of which ensured the collection was a must-have for fans.įittingly, Relics came housed in a memorable sleeve depicting its very own “antique and curio”, with a black-and-white line drawing by Nick Mason depicting a wonderfully Heath Robinson-esque dream machine, conjured directly from Mason’s imagination.
Photography: Aubrey Powell, Peter Christopherson (uncredited) | Design: TCP (Hipgnosis)įirst issued by EMI’s budget label, Starline, in 1971, to help maintain Pink Floyd’s profile while they grappled with that year’s Meddle, Relics was subtitled A Bizarre Collection Of Antiques And Curios. It’s generally viewed as the best point of entry for newcomers, while the specially re-recorded version of Money and a unique edit of Shine On You Crazy Diamond also ensure it’s an essential purchase for dedicated fans. Though the band viewed it as a compromise, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs has since become a mandatory release.
The title, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs, reportedly derived from drummer Nick Mason’s sardonic comment that their US label “probably thought we were a dance band”, so designers Hipgnosis (working under the pseudonym TCP) came up with a cover image depicting a pair of dancers held in place. However, when they discovered the band had nothing new in the can, they decided upon a “best of” collection, to be released in time for 1981’s Christmas holiday season. Attaching the Floyd name to the project brought a much-needed advance of four-and-a-half million pounds.20: ‘A Collection Of Great Dance Songs’ (1981)Īfter The Wall became a global smash, Pink Floyd’s US label, Columbia, were keen to issue more product. The character’s name comes from a joke about the early days of the band when at performances, the club management would ask, “Okay, which one of you is Pink, then?”įunnily enough, this only became a Pink Floyd album rather than a Waters solo project because the band lost millions of dollars in an accounting scam in the fall of 1978.
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Since the studio album’s release in 1979, the tour of 1980-81, and the subsequent movie of 1982, The Wall has become synonymous with, if not the very definition of, the term concept album.Īurally explosive on record, astoundingly complex on stage, and visually explosive on the screen, The Wall traces the life of the fictional protagonist, Pink Floyd, from his boyhood days in post-World-War-II England to his self-imposed isolation as a world-renowned rock star, leading to a climax that is as cathartic as it is destructive.
Pink Floyd’s The Wall is one of the most intriguing and imaginative albums in the history of rock music.
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